Nephthys mourning (with her sister Isis) are rare protective funerary amulets in the characteristic gesture of lamentation. They were placed on the upper chest of mummies of the Ptolemaic Period to facilitate ressurrection as they did with their brother Osiris1
Green and black glaze,
flat back H 5.5, W 2.1
Undated Eton College
Museum #ECM.1448-2010
Green glaze, flat back
H 5.5, W 3.3, T 0.7
Late-Ptolemaic Period
Walters Arts Museum
#48.1636
Blue/green glaze, flat
back H 5.6 Graeco-
Roman Period
© The Trustees of the
British Museum
#EA11468
Reference
1Andrews C. Amulets of Ancient Egypt 1994, p. 48, Fig. 53b